I doubt it, somehow. Livejournal has enough unique options to not make it worth converting the whole lot over to XML-RPC/Blogger/Atom, like all the other CMSs. I'd be delighted if they added Trackback and Categories, but the unique structures of polling, friends, communities and the like make LJ something a little different from the bog-standard blog.
While I'd love to see a MT-compatible app with an UI of XJournal's standard, I don't think it'll be necessary just yet. :-)
I guess I don't really see what's so unique about LJ. Maybe the friending system, but IMHO, that's broken anyway and should be replaced.
Communities are just multiple-author blogs, which Typepad already has. Polls are just special tags in a post's body and have weak API support (see how badly Xjournal's History handles polls for example).
From the user's point of view, yes, LJ does have unique features. From the client developer's point of view, it's not so clear. The syncitems protocol mode is fairly unique in its spectacular difficulty of implementation, I guess.
It would be nice to feel more of a part of the general blogging community, but do I want to go head to head with ecto and MarsEdit?
Well, ecto is good as far as it goes, but its UI sucks big time. MarsEdit has a feature set which is "ehhh" compared to ector right now.
That said, while I could use ecto for posting to LJ, things like the friends management, poll building, quick clicks for linking to other users and communities and the like keep me using Xjournal, as does the "tell me when friends update" feature.
Mentally, I see LJ as a different space from other blog, one that's more inward-focused and one that's more about a group of friends. I suspect that if SA have bought LJ, they'll want to develop that uniqueness, not weaken it.
All true, however I wonder if 6A might want that LJ uniqueness to be their big selling point. Compared to LJ, they seem hecka expensive right now. $14/month for the Pro account?
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Date: 2005-01-05 04:46 pm (UTC)While I'd love to see a MT-compatible app with an UI of XJournal's standard, I don't think it'll be necessary just yet. :-)
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Date: 2005-01-05 04:56 pm (UTC)Communities are just multiple-author blogs, which Typepad already has. Polls are just special tags in a post's body and have weak API support (see how badly Xjournal's History handles polls for example).
From the user's point of view, yes, LJ does have unique features. From the client developer's point of view, it's not so clear. The syncitems protocol mode is fairly unique in its spectacular difficulty of implementation, I guess.
It would be nice to feel more of a part of the general blogging community, but do I want to go head to head with ecto and MarsEdit?
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Date: 2005-01-05 05:12 pm (UTC)That said, while I could use ecto for posting to LJ, things like the friends management, poll building, quick clicks for linking to other users and communities and the like keep me using Xjournal, as does the "tell me when friends update" feature.
Mentally, I see LJ as a different space from other blog, one that's more inward-focused and one that's more about a group of friends. I suspect that if SA have bought LJ, they'll want to develop that uniqueness, not weaken it.
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